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- The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Dialogue, XIV, "Le Chapon et la Poularde" (1766)
- Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Candide, 1759
- When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), letter to Le Comte d'Argental, August 28, 1760
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